Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosophy 1 covers the Science of Logic, in a scholastic sense, both inductive and deductive. The consent of Professor Lewis is required. This course is taken by many with Phil, B to satisfy the requirements for Distribution, in place of a full course in the Philosophy or Math, departments. Though the course may teach thought and the development of Logic, the student may find himself paying more attention to the context of examples in Logic than to their syllogistic form...
...announced a meeting of all Conservative M.P.'s and peers to vote on the question of his leadership. As fast as presses could print, Baron Beaverbrook demanded that all Conservatives who had stood at the last election or are scheduled to stand at the next should also attend. Logic of this demand: men who were defeated under Leader Baldwin would be likely to vote against...
Many are the figures with a hand in Krüger's fate: blunt Autocrat Otto Klenk ("Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator...
...skin to genius. Blaring forth his ideas in a prose that is the essence of strength and polish, he never leaves the reader a moment to catch his breath, but rushes him along through a host of coruscating criticism that is as trenchant as it is illogical. But then logic is a useless baggage to an emotional epitomizer...
This means you, a Dartmouth under-graduate; this means you, staid and respectable members of the faculty, this means you, townspeople of Hanover, older than three and younger than sixty. This means everyone who believes that our logic is sound and refuses to be drowned in his own sea of self consciousness...